On Thursday, November 24, 2022, Thais Morata <tmorata10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> When in May? I could not find that.
>
Hopefully not 17-22nd of May as this is prefered range of dates for
Queering Wikipedia 2023 hybrid conference (just after IDAHOT May17).
Best wishes - Z. Blace
Hi,
Thanks very much for reaching out to me. I wish that you would include me
in what ever Eduwiki is doing.
Thanks once again for your consideration.
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Hi,
Thanks so much for informing me about the call for program and scholarship
committee members who will speak at the Eduwiki conference. Please, include
me as a member of both committee. Also enlist me as one of those who will
answer questions.
Thanks once again and accept my best wishes.
ONWUKA GLORY
(P. HD- inview).
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Faculty of Education
Department of educational foundations,
Childhood unit.
Co-coordinator,
Owerri Wikimedia network
Imo State.
Hi,
Thanks very much for reaching out to me. I wish that you would include me
in what ever Eduwiki is doing.
Thanks once again for your consideration.
ONWUKA GLORY
Dear EDUWiki enthusiasts,
Voting for the Wikipedia & Education User Group Board concluded on November
10th.
After carefully examining the votes, here are the results:
* Out of 77 votes (after removing 3 duplicates), only 24 were valid votes
made by the User Group's members -
53 votes were counted out as invalid, as they were not made by members.
I encourage all of you to check if your username appears on the membership
list
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_G…>
.
If it is not, please apply for membership
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeglKZ4Ex5W7PjhDIkWsTNrFJqxnjLV1Bf…>,
so you can better engage with the User Group and cast your vote during the
next election process. Although the candidacy was made after the call for
candidates had expired, the Board chose to allow it and the voting form
included an option to vote for 6 candidates.
* Out of the 24 valid votes, here is the distribution of votes:
14 votes supported the current 5 Board members (LiAnna Davis, Susanna
Mkrtchyan, Ziko van Dijk, Filip Maljkovic and João Alexandre Peschanski)
remaining as the Board.
10 Votes supported 6 candidates: the 5 existing Board members mentioned
above, and Bukola Olutola James, who presented her candidacy during the
General Assembly.
As the majority of members voted to keep 5 seats, the Wikipedia & Education
User Group Board for the coming two years is: LiAnna Davis, Susanna
Mkrtchyan, Ziko van Dijk, Filip Maljkovic and João Alexandre Peschanski.
Additionally, as the Board was impressed by Bukola's desire to join the
Board and engage more with the UG's activities, the Board has offered
Bukola to be an advisor to the Board, which she has accepted. This role
will allow her to learn more about the Board's work and the UG's activities
first hand, and apply as a candidate in a timely manner in a future
election round.
I'd like to thank the Board for its continued work and hope you join me in
wishing them all another productive and successful term!
Sincerely,
Shani Evenstein Sigalov
Special Advisor to the Wikipedia & Education User Group Board
Hello everyone,
Abd Alsattar Ardati (University of St Andrews) and collaborators are
studying online Wikipedia training and editing to prototype and
evaluate a *collaborative
training tool that can support Wikipedia trainers to train newcomers to
Wikipedia remotely*, and we want to *invite you* to participate in our
*research
study anonymously*.
If you agree to participate in this study, please click on the following
questionnaire link so we can find out how familiar you are with Wikipedia
and whether you have any experience in Wikipedia editing. *It will take ~2
mins to complete*.
At the end, *you will be redirected to an online social ideation and voting
tool called Tricider* to *view, comment, and vote on others' ideas about
designing an online Wikipedia training tool* and to add your ideas for
others to discuss and vote on. Please beware of the Tricider website's
adverts that would look like part of the listed ideas.
https://standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8GuEdzPOGFaFrRc
Your contribution is important. Thank you.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the researchers. Their
details are below:
*Contact Details*
Researchers:
Abd Alsattar Ardati (aaa8(a)st-andrews.ac.uk)
Dr Sara Thomas (sara.thomas(a)wikimedia.org.uk)
Dr Richard Nevell (richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk)
Dr Kirsty Ross (ksrh1(a)st-andrews.ac.uk)
Supervisors:
Prof Ian Gent (ian.gent(a)st-andrews.ac.uk)
Dr Alexander Voss (alex.voss(a)st-andrews.ac.uk)
Dr Uta Hinrichs (uh3(a)st-andrews.ac.uk)
Dr Angela Miguel (arm14(a)st-andrews.ac.uk)
School of Computer Science
University of St Andrews
Jack Cole Building
North Haugh
St Andrews KY16 9SX
+44 1334 46 3262
--
Dr Richard Nevell (he/him)
Programme Coordinator and Connected Heritage Project Lead
<https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/>
Wikimedia UK <https://wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for the
global Wikimedia open knowledge movement.
Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK>, LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/496119>, and Instagram
<https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauk/>.
Wikimedia UK is a registered charity in England and Wales No.1144513
and Scotland
No. SC048644. Company Limited by Guarantee, Registration No. 6741827.
Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5-11 Lavington Street, London
SE1 0NZ
<https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gm…>
.
Dear community members,
During the 2022 Wikimedia Summit, the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee> (MCDC)
presented the first outline of the Movement Charter, giving a glimpse on
the direction of its future work, and the Charter itself. The MCDC then
integrated the initial feedback collected during the Summit. Before
proceeding with writing the Charter for the whole movement, the MCDC wants
to interact with community members and gather feedback on the drafts of the
three sections: *Preamble*, *Values & Principles*, and *Roles &
Responsibilities* (intentions statement). The Movement Charter drafts will
be available on the Meta page here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Content> on 14 November
2022. Community wide consultation period on Movement Charter will take
place from 20 November to 18 December 2022. Learn more about it here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Community_Consultation>.
With the goal of ensuring that people are well informed to fully
participate in the conversations and are empowered to equitably contribute
their perspective on the Movement Charter, three *“Ask Me Anything about
Movement Charter"* sessions have been scheduled for different timezones.
Everyone is invited to attend these conversations. The aim is to learn
about Movement Charter - its goal, purpose, why it matters, and how it
impacts your community. MCDC members will attend these sessions to answer
your questions and hear community feedback.
The “Ask Me Anything” sessions accommodate communities from different
timezones. Only the presentation will be recorded and shared afterwards,
conversation will not be recorded. Below is the list of planned sessions:
- *Asia/Pacific*: 4 November 2022 at 09:00 UTC (your local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1667552400>). Interpretation is
available in Chinese and Japanese.
- *Europe/MENA/Sub Saharan Africa*: 12 November 2022 at 15:00 UTC (your
local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1668265257>). Interpretation
is available in Arabic, French and Russian.
- *Latin America/North America/ Western Europe*: 12 November 2022 at
15:00 UTC (your local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1668265257>).
Interpretation is available in Spanish and Portuguese.
You will find more details on the Meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Community_Consultation>;
Zoom links will be shared 48 hours before the session.
*Call for Movement Charter Ambassadors*
Individuals or groups from all communities who wish to help include and
start conversations in their communities on the Movement Charter are
encouraged to become Movement Charter Ambassadors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance/Movement_C…>
(MC
Ambassadors). MC Ambassadors will carry out their own activities and get
financial support for enabling conversations in their own languages. Regional
facilitators
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance/Team> from
the Movement Strategy and Governance team are available to support
applicants with MC Ambassadors grantmaking. If you are interested, please sign
up
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance/Movement_C…>
.
If you have specific questions, you can reach out to me (
csinha-ctr(a)wikimedia.org), write to the MSG team (strategy2030(a)wikimedia.org),
or write on the MS Forum <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/>.
Regards,
Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>)
Facilitator, South Asia, Movement Strategy and Governance
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance> (MSG)
Dear all,
Thanks to those of you who were able to attend the *General Assembly today!*
If you weren't able to attend, you can* watch the recording here*.
<https://youtu.be/AABAFHRDljc>
As part of the Assembly, we kicked off *voting for the user group's board*.
*All five existing board members* (LiAnna Davis, Susanna Mkrtchyan, Ziko
van Dijk, Filip Maljkovic, and João Alexandre Peschanski) are running
again.
*Another candidate*, Bukola James, was nominated during the meeting; she
introduced herself to voting members beginning at 25:55 in the YouTube
recording.
Since she was not nominated prior to the start of the meeting, she is not
included in the form, but you are welcome to write her in -- If you select
"no" to the full re-election question, you will get an opportunity to write
in candidates.
According to the User Group's by-laws, there can be up to 7 board members,
so you can vote for all six candidates running if you'd like; simply write
in their names.
*Voting will be done via this Google Form
<https://forms.gle/BMDGU5NzFnxb9i7q6> *and is open to anyone who was a
member of the user group at the time voting began. Please check if
your username
is listed on this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_G…>
under
"Members List", and if so, please feel free to participate and vote!
*Voting is open until 16:00 UTC on Tuesday, November 10 *(one week from the
start of the meeting). As a special advisor to the group, I was asked to
oversee the process. I will therefore be analyzing your votes and
announcing the results.
All the best to all the candidates!
Shani.
---------------------------------------------------
Shani Evenstein Sigalov
Special Advisor, Wikipedia & Education User Group.